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‘When I was a Boko Haram member’

By The Insight Team July 9, 2020 860 0

By Mustapha Bukar Sabo In modern-day Nigeria, Borno is referred to as Home of Peace.  Its history is synonymous with statecraft, Islam, and scholarship.  When Kanem Borno was relating to the outside world in trade and international relations, most nationalities in Nigeria were unaware of the outside world.  It is the home of Islamic Continue Reading

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How Nigeria can survive the oil slump – NEITI

By The Insight Team July 9, 2020 824 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has come up with a prescription on how Nigeria can cope with the current economic challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic. NEITI is a government agency task with the challenge of ensuring accountability and transparency in the solid mineral and natural resources sector. In its […]Continue Reading

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Peculiar mode of development of Korea

By The Insight Team July 7, 2020 755 0

The international community is showing special interest in the mode of development peculiar to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has followed the road of its choice without a single mistake and failure for over 70 years. When a nation takes its destiny in its own hands and carves it out by its […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank ranked number one bank in Nigeria by tier-1 capital

By The Insight Team July 1, 2020 872 0

Zenith Bank Plc has again emerged the Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the 2020 Top 1000 World Banks Ranking published by The Banker Magazine. Climbing a whopping 29 spots from 415 in 2019 to 386 in the 2020 global ranking of banks, Zenith Bank retained its position as the number one […]Continue Reading

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Stop unprovoked attacks on Igala people

By The Insight Team June 29, 2020 968 0

Uk’Omu Igala Organization (UIO), an umbrella organization for all socio-cultural groups in Kogi East, has called for a halt to what it called ‘unprovoked attacks on the Igala kingdom’ over a court ruling that affirmed Igala ownership of Ajaokuta, Lokoja, and Koton-Karfe. In a statement signed by Comptroller Abdul Amade (rtd), the National Leader of Continue Reading

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In praise of Marxism

By The Insight Team June 26, 2020 926 0

By Edwin Madunagu One of the earliest objections we encountered from our opponents when we entered the organized Marxist political activism in the early post-Civil War years was the one built around the thesis that Marxism, our ideology, was alien to Africa and to Nigeria in particular. We soon realized that this objection was not […]Continue Reading

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One Year Later: Zulum tackles 326 capital projects, 49 programmes, Borno SSG declares

By The Insight Team June 13, 2020 896 0

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has in one year, undertaken 326 capital projects and 49 policies and programmes, some of which were capital-intensive, Secretary to the State Government, Usman Jidda Shuwa has announced. Jidda, in a statement on Saturday, explained that under 21 of the capital projects, Zulum’s administration is constructing 6,544 Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s indebtedness to Igala Kingdom

By The Insight Team June 13, 2020 901 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD The Federal High Court in Lokoja set tongues wagging, dogs barking and goat bleating when on June 2, 2020, after examining incontrovertible evidence, the court recited the contents of Nigeria’s history to declare that the country is indebted to ancient Igala Kingdom. That debt in cowries, now to be paid in […]Continue Reading

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10 Issues in Buhari’s Democracy Day Broadcast

By The Insight Team June 12, 2020 711 0

Macroeconomy has stabilized, as economic decline is ‘relatively moderate’ External Reserves stands at $36 billion, enough to fund import for seven months Some 1,200 Housing Units delivered Ajaokuta Steel Company will be resuscitated Siemens agreement will see to the rehabilitation of transmission lines, and by 2023, electricity infrastructure shall transmit Continue Reading

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The Undying Legacy of Odua, By Eric Teniola

By The Insight Team June 12, 2020 1010 0

The South West governors have reconstituted the board of directors of Odua Company Limited. The new board is headed by Dr, Lawrence Olusegun Aina (65), past President of West Africa Bankers Association and former President of Otan-Ayegbaju Development Association in Osun state. Other members of the new board are Chief Segun Ojo, a former Commissioner […]Continue Reading

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Seventeen facts you need to know about Covid-19

By The Insight Team June 12, 2020 798 0

With the current cases of the Covid-19 pandemic increasing daily, there have been false information disseminated on the internet. Dr. Faheem Younus, of the University of Maryland, gave some useful facts about the Coronavirus. Below are seventeen facts you probably didn’t know about Covid-19. 1. We may have to live with Covid-19 for months or […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram: Zulum visits Gubio village where 81 died, village head, 6 others abducted

By The Insight Team June 11, 2020 744 0

… Gov evacuates injured victims, calls attack barbaric, wants final onslaught by military   Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday, travelled to Faduma Kolomdi village in Gubio local government area, a scene of a deadly attack by Boko Haram. Faduma Kolomdi, which is a nomadic village, is located 35 kilometres in the north […]Continue Reading